Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 13:37:25 -0500 From: christopher chase-dunn Subject: special issue of JWSR To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Reply-to: chriscd@jhu.edu Volume 4, number 1 of the Journal of World-Systems Research is now up. It is a special issue on the globalization of labor movements edited by Brad Nash (Virginia Polytechnic). JWSR is available free for educational and research purposes. The web address is http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr.html The table of contents of the special issue is below. I will also mail the table of contents page directly to wsn participants. Thanks to Brad Nash and the contributors, and also to Salvatore Babones, Dan Shupp and Sarah Khokar. Chris Chase-Dunn/Editor-JWSR Volume 4, Number 1 (Winter 1998) Special Issue: Global Labor Movements Guest-Edited by Bradley Nash, Jr. Editors' Introduction: Globalizing Solidarity: Praxis and the International Labor Movement Bradley Nash, Jr. Bradley Nash, Jr., ed. Forum: Prospects for a Global Labor Movement Edna Bonacich, The Problems and the Prospects Ralph Armbruster, Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Organizing Bradley Nash, Jr., Organizing a Global Labor Movement from Top and Bottom Dan Clawson, Contradictions of Labor Solidarity Beverly Silver, The Global Restructuring of Labor Movements Edna Bonacich Organizing Immigrant Workers in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry Ralph Armbruster Cross-Border Organizing in the Garment and Automobile Industries: The Phillips Van Heusen and Ford Cuautitlan Cases Dimitris Stevis International Labor Organizations, 1864-1997: The Weight of History and the Challenges of the Present